Archive for August 2007

Microsoft Flunked Comparing 101

By Josh Chalifour, 24 August 2007

It’s the thing to do since everyone is linking to the page–I just read Microsoft’s new page comparing Windows to Red Hat (www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/compare/compare_linux.mspx). The marketing group at Microsoft does impressive work. They successfully got a large number of article writers and bloggers to keep their name floating on everyone’s mind (myself obviously included).
Nevertheless, if there [...]

Corporate Wiki, a TWiki Announcement

By Josh Chalifour, 8 August 2007

After a lengthy post yesterday about TEC’s internal use of a corporate wiki, I read an announcement today from TWiki about the launch of its enterprise wiki service TWIKI.NET. TWiki is a venerable open source wiki system, with a huge quantity of interesting and useful plugin functionality. The company’s press release says
“TWIKI.NET will provide premium [...]

Wiki While You Work

By Josh Chalifour, 7 August 2007

The Globe and Mail published an article about using wiki applications in the workplace. While not a new notion, this is the first time I’ve seen it in a regular newspaper and not an IT business rag. A point the article touches on is the wiki’s security. I think wiki security may be one of [...]